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feedmeflytrap

feedmeflytrap
Date Joined: July 13, 2014
Last Online: August 16, 2015

Country: United States

About Me

I am just beginning my first year as a middle/high school science teacher. While I am looking forward to having my own classroom, it also is completely terrifying.

I can be a rather random person: I bounce around topics when I talk and I bounce around among hobbies and projects fairly often.

I have a wonderful pet rat that I adore!

Favorite Books

I love reading- mostly fiction (fantasy, science fiction, fanfiction, etc).

Some of my favorite reading books include:
- Artemis Fowl
- Harry Potter
- The Inheritance Cycle
- October Sky series
- Enders Game (first book only)
- Monster Hunter series
- Green Rider series

I also really enjoy comics, which I basically only read once they come out in treasuries.

Some of my favorite comics include:
- Calvin and Hobbes
- Foxtrot
- Farside
- Pearls Before Swine
- Get Fuzzy
- Mutts

Favorite Television

I can be rather geeky when it comes to my television shows. I nowhere near that stereotypical 'fangirl' level and I will probably never attend an event for any show, but I do definitely spend an hour or more amusing myself with some internet thing related to a show occasionally.

That said, some of my favorite shows include:
- Doctor Who
- Sherlock
- Firefly
- Stargate SG-1
- Grimm
- Star Trek: TNG
- Merlin
- Leverage
- Supernatural
- Eureka
- Warehouse 13
- MASH
- Basically any documentary show with Attenborough

Favorite Movies

While I do watch movies, there just seem to be less of them that stick out in my mind than television shows.

Here are a few I can actually remember to mention:
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog
- My Life in Ruins
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (the original)
- Toy Story (1 through 3)
- Mulan

Random

I enjoy basic quilting and have made a few quilts, but I do tend to work on a project in an on again-off again fashion. I love fabrics of all colors and patterns!

I also enjoy origami in a rather on and off fashion.

Occasionally I take photos for the a wordpress weekly photo challenge where you are given a theme to express.

Crude humor is not my thing, but I do appreciate other humor- especially sarcasm, irony, and wit.

I run/jog - but pretty casually and rather slowly. As long as I am not on the couch and hopefully a bit faster than a walk I am fairly happy.


Stickers rock! I have been savoring the idea of expanding my sticker collection to use on graded papers in my classroom.

Any fun classroom supplies are also appreciated. Nice pens, sharpies, colored masking tape, bulletin board decorations, etc are great!

Any neat science items, ideas, or activities you would like to share are great.

I enjoy puzzles- logic puzzles, regular puzzles, mind benders, bent nails, etc.

Card and board games also are fun! A few you should definitely check out are Flux, Chrononauts, Qwirkle, Set, Tri-bond, and Blokus.

I like earrings (for pierced ears), brooches, and other jewelry.

I collect coffee cup sleeves and would love to have some from new places! Any with your favorite cafe logo, or any fun/interesting ones you would like to send my way would be exciting! Please only clean ones :-)

I have also begun collecting bottle caps to hopefully one day use in making a table top. I would love some more diverse caps!


I enjoy cooking and baking. I like to try my hand at cakes and cake decorating fairly often.

I like to try a variety of foods, both homemade and in restaurants. Thai, Indian, Vietnamese, German- anything really!

Dark chocolate is the best!

I am addicted to good coffee!

Tea is also good! Fruity teas are usually a bit weird to me, but I am up to trying new ones.


Dragons are neat.

I like a great variety of animals: rodents, opossums, bowerbirds, mudskippers, birds of paradise, squids, snakes, amphibians, worms, spiders, slime molds, etc. Pretty much anything is cool with me. I have been rather hung up on mantis shrimp and pangolins lately, for example. Cats and dogs are nice, though I usually pick a more unique animal for something like a toy or sticker.

Lastly...

I do not have any allergies.

I am happy to receive about anything in a swap- it is more about the interaction than the item for me.

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Comment: Wow VERY VERY well made! Thank you for the back story on the plush you created! :] I really love ghibli films but have never seen those two. Looks like I will have to! :]
Response: Thanks, I really enjoyed making him and writing the note :-) Now I am in the mood for some Ghibli as well...
celloplyr rated for Interest me in a new book No. 15 on Aug 20, 2014
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Comment: Thank you for the post! I enjoyed the comic and it was a nice thought to include those cutouts. I hope you forgive me for the delay in rating.
Response: No problem- just wanted to make sure you received your fair share :-) Glad you are feeling better and liked the comic.
pernie123 rated for Pick 3 Swap - August on Aug 19, 2014
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Comment: Thank you .for my gifts, esp. earrings. I love them. I also know about feed sacks. in my growing up days, I had a pair of shorts and halter made of feed sacks. Good old days in VA!
Response: I am glad you like the earrings :-) I had never thought of shorts and a halter made of feedsack- for some reason I just imagined dresses mostly. Cool!
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Comment: Hello Kate, Thank you for reading my profile, and letting me know about a new author, Cleo Coyle..I look forward in seeing if he has Large Print books, like Joann. Thank you for the stickers..I, too, have a big stash, but, none of these are in mine. Have a great evening...
junemoon rated for Fabric Scrap Swap on Aug 8, 2014
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Comment: Thanks for your remembrances about the various scraps. You really must make a scrap/memory quilt. My quilt just did a show of scrap quilts, there are so many interesting and easy patterns, I hope you'll feel inspired to make something new.
user2148 rated for Interest me in a new book No. 15 on Aug 7, 2014
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Comment: Love what you are reading! I am a fan myself as I grew up with a younger brother who had an iguana! The additions that went with the theme of each strip were an amazing touch! I'll be using all of it in my journal! Thanks so much!
Response: Thanks- I am glad you liked everything! How neat about your younger brother and his iguana!

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